What a wild time the mid-late 90’s were. Fresh canvasses for everyone, “modern” browsers and tools, and a new way to get your website online and viewed by the entirety of the internet. For teenagers (at the time) like myself, this was a terrific way to make cool things. From GeoCities to AngelFire to Dreamweaver, the journey was a special one.
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All this is missing is a the sound of a dial up modem and that 7-Up dancing dot gif spanning the width of the browser.
Wow, I wish I still had my Geocities sites. I had a Creed fan page on Angelfire. Then I jumped into the teen domain scene and got my own domain wrought with melodramatic journal-type entries.
This takes me back to staying up all night typing code and redesigning my website every week. Such fond memories. I’ve been out of web design and development since 2014, but I’ve just been tasked with developing my firm’s intranet—and I’m SO excited to jump back into it.
03:46 'that looks great' ha ha ha
This was awesome. My wife kept asking me what I was laughing at. To be really authentic, coding your HTML should have been done in Notepad… 😉
640X480 or 800X600 @ 1:24 is wrong. Most were 1024X768 by the mid 90s. 640X480 is more like 1992.
I remember it well, you missed one thing, the dial up, and also I think I wrote a good proportion of my first sites using notepad!!
I had a geocities site 😞
".webp"
Could you do a follow-up on how to make our website "dynamic" by using PHP or Perl? Like having and input and a button and when you write a name in the input and click a button the page reloads and we get "{name} is awesome" in big bold glorious pink comic sans
I was 11!
Watched again for nostalgic purposes
Want the true thrill of 1998?
Watch this video in 240p to get an idea!!!
BOY you made me go back into my teenages years! And building those baby's with Microsoft FrontPage.. Man those were the days, good old table days XD AHAHAHAH
I missed those rotating @'s 🙂
Oh yes, this was the sugar!
You forgot to make a MySpace page!
Don't forget that fameous Microsoft Frontpage.
XD – you used way too much CSS and nobody used div tags back then – everything was tables, font tags and if you were really in the know – you knew how to use frame tags – but it sure looked like a page from 98.
Good old times 😀
I remember stealing java applets off other peoples site so you could have a picture with a ripple effect 😉 css came much later for me, I used frames with javascript mouseover images a lot
Yahoo?! Pfft! That's so 1995. the cool kids use AltaVista.
The marquee, I totally forgot about that one.
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I can’t get over how accurate this is. Angelfire was my life back then lol
webp in 1998?
But where is the Comic Sans?
You used a .webp file instead of a .gif file. My immersion is ruined.
I didn't want this video to end 🙁
This website is spot-on, it takes me back lol
I feel like I just walked into what would have been an amazing April Fool's video.
You made a website in 1998, and didn't add multiple waving American Flags?
Genius can i cry?
U USED sooo many times geocities…
The website would not have used any .webp (only .gif) and probably used <BODY BACKGROUND=""> and <table width=""> instead of CSS. Remember that loading CSS was an option in Netscape. So was loading images, that's why you had to put an ALT="Enable images to fully enjoy the site" into every image…
Then add some JavaScript snow or analog clock, and maybe some layers (if you liked Netscape) or dhtml DIVs (for IE).
Not to forget some sound effects or even background music.
divs? hahaha!
The nostalgia is killing me, so accurate man
says he's doing it like 1998: uses webp and HTML5 doctype.
Come on dude, where's the gif and the HTML4 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> ??